Professor Richard S. Dunn passed away on January 24, 2022. He was a historian specializing 17th and 18th century America. He had taught for decades at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630-1717 (1962), The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1715 (1971), Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713 (1972), four volumes on William Penn for University of Pennsylvania Press, and A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Virginia and Jamaica (2014). After his wife passed away (Mary Maples-Dunn a distinguished historian and former President of Smith College), he was living in Winston-Salem, NC. Last time I saw, he was video on Sugar and Slaves on its 50th anniversary. Boston Globe has his obituary. And the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He was a great man.
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